Mr. McKinnie directs and oversees the Atlanta and Charlotte offices of Counsel On Call.

Prior to joining Counsel on Call, Mr. McKinnie founded and served as a Managing Director of Contrado Partners, LLC, a management consulting firm located in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. He also participated in the founding of BridgeQuest, Inc., a software development firm. Immediately preceding the founding of Contrado Partners, Mr. McKinnie was Senior Vice-President, General Counsel of two publicly traded enterprise software companies. During his more than 20 years of law practice, Mr. McKinnie has served as Staff Counsel to the Supreme Court of the United States and was a part of the intellectual property litigation group of Powell Goldstein, LLP, in Atlanta.

Mr. McKinnie is a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, where he was on the Editorial Board of the Cumberland Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Janie Shores, Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and then as Staff Attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Mr. McKinnie is licensed to practice law in Georgia and Alabama. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Alabama Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, the Lawyers Club, the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a former member of the Federal Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before most state and federal courts in Georgia and Alabama and is admitted before the Supreme Court of the United States. He serves on the board of directors of a number of private companies.